Best Shakespeare Blogs 2019

Thank you all for some wonderful Shakespeare Blogs. This has indeed been a feast. Please check out some of the wonderful contributions listed below Shakespeare in a Rainbow!

Best Summative Entry- with a focus on why Shakespeare continues to be important in our own time:

https://georgiahoulihan.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/summative-entry-shakespeare-and-renaissance-literature/

Thank you Georgia!

Honest Summative Entry reflecting on the impossibility of knowing what it is to be human:

https://mikaelaswords.home.blog/2019/05/06/summative-entry/

Then there are a group of fabulous entries inspired by specific sonnets:

Best Blog reflecting on Sonnet 146: https://charlottealphonso.wordpress.com/category/shakespeare-renaissance-literature/engl210-best-blog/

Best Blog reflection on Sonnet 18- “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”:

https://brendonjohnsonblog.wordpress.com/category/shakespeare-and-the-renaissance/shakespeare-best-blogs/

Thank you Brendon.

Laura’s tribute to her grandfather, building on Shakespeare’s sonnet 18:

https://lauranash1.wordpress.com/2019/03/09/sonnet-1/

Georgia on Sonnet 146

https://georgiahoulihan.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/blog-post-4-letter-to-the-soul-of-william-shakespeare-creative/

Two of the best love/lurve poems. Thank you Lili

https://lilibraidner.home.blog/2019/05/05/the-promise-of-a-simple-love-2/

https://lilibraidner.home.blog/2019/04/03/toxic/

Fabulous summative entries

https://lilibraidner.home.blog/2019/05/05/summative-entry-2/comment-page-1/#comment-60

Thank you Lili (again)

Here is a great comic poem based on Marlow’s Shepherd:

https://claudiabussier.wordpress.com/2019/02/27/blog-1/

Here is a fabulous exposition of Shakespeare’s vision of a controlling father. Thank you Greg: https://gregcoustasblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/the-wrath-of-egeus-third-blog-entry/

It is really worth reading this next to Aylin’s entry on learning how to confront a dominant male through reading Shakespeare:

https://aylinjulieanalin.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/blog-4-shakespeare/comment-page-1/#comment-78

Then there are bunch of really fabulous Summative Entries. See Harry’s:

https://harrydanyal.wordpress.com/summative-entry/

Emily’s

https://emilyford95.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/161/

Caitlin’s

https://caitlinmccartney.art.blog/2019/05/06/summative-entry-3/

And last, but certainly not least, Jacob’s https://jacobhall1246063530.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/studying-the-literature-and-culture-of-the-renaissance-has-amplified-my-understanding-of-what-it-is-to-be-human/comment-page-1/#comment-96

Enjoy! Thank you all for your intelligent and joyful work during this last semester.